 All this month get any smartphone 32-gigand under for 50% off regular price at Appalachian Wireless. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. While supplies last, two-year agreement required. The operating cost of a county jail can become burdensome on a county budget. The greatest expense for the Floyd County Detention Center is its medical cost, an expenditure that not only gets inmates healthy but can potentially save their lives. The biggest majority of the inmates that come in here are withdrawing from some type of drug or alcohol and have neglected their health some for 20, 30 years or more. So when they come in, you know, our first thing that we want to do is to withdraw them safely and then get into the chronic care. A lot of hypertension, diabetes, kidney failure, liver problems and some of that stuff can be quite costly. Although medical cost is this facility's greatest expense, you can't put a price on people's lives. Floyd County Jailer Stuart Holbert says his inmates are more than just numbers of the crimes they commit, they're people. The medical is, you know, number one of what I have to deal with. That's the thing that I want to ensure to, you know, all these inmates. We want to try to keep everybody as safe and, you know, and keep everybody alive. We've done a real good job the last several years with actually with the medical cost. It usually runs about 160,000 a year. You know, the majority of these people are good people. They've made mistakes and that's one thing we've got to remember. I mean, these are human beings that we're dealing with. You know, these are not, you know, any kind of animals or anything. These people are human beings and that's, you know, we want to try to take care of them the best we can. Holbert went on to say that if his inmates' medical needs are taken care of after they detoxify, they can experience what it's like to feel good without the drugs they've been on. Reporting from Pristinsburg for EKB News, I'm Shawn Allen.